Happy Memorial Day Weekend to our US listeners! This week, the movies that brought us joy are about… addiction and death? Sure, why not!

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Dear listeners, this week we bring our joy to you with some of our favorite things: underdog sports movies and obscure French auteur movies that never got made!

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Dearest listeners, we apologize for skipping last week, but we now bring you two weeks worth of joy! Space aliens, time loops, punk rock, and Beyonce ahoy!

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Good morrow, dear listeners! Today we bring you the myriad delights of our previous week: Slings & Arrows, Dungeons & Dragons, prurience & Pittsburgh, and more!

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Dear listeners, we come to you this week with an episode about several things that made us happy recently: The Raid, Tetris, Martha Raye, and so many other delights!

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Dear listeners, today we bring you the exciting conclusion of our XanaCineHoliday disucssions! We surprise each other with movies new and old, silly and serious, and big and small.

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Dear listeners, today we bring back one of our favorite traditions of Pleasure Domes past: the XanaCineHoliday! This esteemed holiday is when Windy and Melissa pick out a weekend, assign movies to each other, watch those movies, and meet up between films to talk about them. Today’s episode is the first half our XanaCineHoliday disucssions; next week we will post the second half.

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Good morrow, dear listeners! In this episode, we discuss several films we recently watched on very long airplane flights, and we wax rhapsodic about food. (We might have recorded this podcast while we were hungry.)

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Dear listeners, this week we have some very special treats for you! Melissa and Windy sign in from London, where they bring tales of visiting the set of The Gorge, seeing the West End stage adaptation of Moulin Rouge, and watching the extended version of That Thing You Do.

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Dear listeners, we are still traveling, so today you are receiving a new “off topic” episode, which is constructed of some of the more interesting bits we edited out of our previous episodes. Some clips are new, some clips are many years old, and all clips are quite random.

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